Welcome to the Freedom to Read Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. Today on my blog you can win a free signed copy of my book I Almost Divorced My Husband, But I Went On Strike Instead. My book has been featured in both Redbook Magazine and Kirkus Review.

Sherri Mills eagerly took over all household and child rearing duties at the beginning of her marriage. Years later, exhausted and angry from her husband's do-nothing attitude but having a "No Divorce" goal, she went on strikeand it worked. Sherri's candid confessions of going from picket fences to picket signs will have you laughing your way to a permanent, equitable division of labor and domestic bliss.

Monday, June 25, 2012

At my signing a couple of weeks ago a young gentleman came over to my table after peeking around corners for a while. He told me he had been divorced twice and he didn't want to lose this wife.He asked me what was expected of him at home.

I asked him, "Do both of you work?"

He answered, "Ya, she works two jobs but I make the most money." I had heard that before.

I said, "You need this book."

He answered, "I thought it was their fault the first two times, but when it happens three times, I"m thinking it might just be me."

He bought the book and when I went back to the same store two weeks later he came in and was real excited to tell me how much he had learned. He said, "I had no idea I was supposed to be sharing the work load." Then he said, "She was so excited that I had come up with it by myself. "

Sunday, June 10, 2012

A lady came over to me at the book signing and said she just wasn't happy in her marriage. Her husband didn't do anything bad he was just too boring and she couldn't stand it any more.

I asked her specific questions; Does he drink? Is he a slob? Is he abusive?

I think I was able to come up with quite a few real bad faults. I told her that if she traded her boring husband for another guy she just may end up with one who was guilty of many of these faults, one of them might be that he doesn't like her children.

I told her to take a 3x5 card and write all of her husband's good qualities on it. She must include everything, even something as simple as, does he brush his teeth . Keep the card where she could read it every day.

She seemed to agree and I saw a flicker of hope that she just might have a keeper after all.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

I was doing a book signing in Murray yesterday and an elderly man came over to chat. He told me that his daughter walked out on her husband years ago because he wouldn't do anything around the house. He seemed so sad when he told me that she had been miserable ever since.

Then he added, "I hate to admit this but my son's wife left him for the very same reason."

When I told him that my ultimate goal was to stop the skyrocketing divorce rate, he thanked me for getting the information out.

Later A lady came over to my table. As she was scanning through my book she said, "This is really needed, I am a counselor so I know what I'm talking about."

A Little About Me....

My name is Sherri Mills, and I have enjoyed a forty-year career as a hairdresser, but I consider myself what Dr. Lewis E. Losoncy calls a "Psy-cosmetologist." He teaches people in my line of work that we don't just change peoples hair, but by listening to their problems and responidng intelligently, we change their lives.

After reading Dr. Losoncy's book, I downsized my busy four operator salon to a one operator where clients could have their privacy. I discovered right away that people tell their hairdressers evreything.

As my clients began to ask me for advice on their marriages and divorces, I felt obligated to really help, so I started reading on the subjects of relationships, personal growth, and communication. More often than not, my clients, after paying for their hair, have asked me, "Now, what do I owe you for my counseling session?"

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Our Story...

(I Almost Divorced my Husband, but I Went on Strike Instead) tells the true story of the ten years I suffered the doing-it-all syndrome as a full time wife, mother and breadwinner. I tried so many schemes, but none of them made an impression on this relaxed, carefree male chauvinist who – without being aware of it – I had inadvertently helped to create. To avoid divorce, I went on a domestic strike against my husband and children. The two week strike was the hardest thing I have ever done but it changed my life ‘to this day’. The Salt Lake Tribune featured us on the front page of their ‘family’ section and local women told me their husband’s were helping just because my strike was in the public eye. This is a 45,000 word self-help book with an attitude and very friendly to the men in our lives.

It teaches specific strategies and techniques for changing the situation from that of ‘help’ to ‘shared responsibility’.

The Contract

The excruciating pain I witnessed from divorces that didn’t have to happen is ultimately what compelled me to write this book. I spent an enormous amount of time researching in other areas, what I found to be true in this small area and I couldn’t let it go.

Books on the disparity between husbands and wives fill the book shelves. Most of them suggest ways to get husbands to help. While others come with a little information and chore lists, several focus on how men just don’t know what to do to help. However there is no other resource besides my book that covers all of the above and specifically pulls together information that answers the questions; How did we get to this place, Why is it so difficult to get husbands to pull their weight, and is it possible we have been doing it all wrong by blaming our men? Answers to these and more questions are detailed in the body of the book as are countless tips on keeping ones marriage together for the sake of the children.

Self-help books usually have good information but at times are boring to read. The reader is in for a treat because ‘I Almost Divorced My Husband,’ contains countless, funny, interesting true stories to press a point, (I have gone to great strides to make certain everyone’s identities are completely hidden.)

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Taken July 14, 2002 This photo shows all 8 of our very own Grandchildren. There is no arguing over whose grandkids are more important or whose house we should spend the holidays at or who loves who more. This is our family. "OUR" Family!